| anthrax kills wild chimpanzees in a tropical rainforest. | infectious disease has joined habitat loss and hunting as threats to the survival of the remaining wild populations of great apes. nevertheless, relatively little is known about the causative agents. we investigated an unusually high number of sudden deaths observed over nine months in three communities of wild chimpanzees (pan troglodytes verus) in the taï national park, ivory coast. here we report combined pathological, cytological and molecular investigations that identified bacillus anthraci ... | 2004 | 15269768 |